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Mass Unemployment Is Here to Stay “Thereis enough in the tmarchist^fortnigHtiy world to satisfy everyone’s needs but not everyone’s greed.” Gandhi Freedomf if t y p e n c e Vol. 55 No. 7 2 APRIL 1994 THE CAPITALIST DISEASE THAT W O N ’T GO AWAY MASS UNEMPLOYMENT IS HERE TO STAY he G7 meeting in Detroit last next champagne party in Naples, be of their top boys with golden Tmonth of the top politicians of the studying how to reduce the estimated handshakes. major industrial countries was, as all 30 million unemployed in the G7 such ‘summit’ gatherings invariably countries at present. ince the politicians go on repeating are, a huge success... for the smiling, Without their expertise, this writer Sthat they can see light at the end hand-shaking, champagne-guzzling nevertheless has no hesitation in of the capitalist-unemployment leaders and their retinues of advisers forecasting that by the time Naples is tunnel, we surety need not apologise and other hangers-on. due, our political mafia will have for also repeating our view that short For the army of the unemployed and found another excuse to explain why of draconian measures (which would the underpaid part-timers-without- the number of unemployed and the certainly finish off Baroness rights, the homeless and the sick poverty of the bottom 20% has got Thatcher, as Chile-con-carne failed to (‘tuberculosis the new scourge’ worse while the profits of the banks do recently) unemployment in the among the poor and the cardboard are soaring, the speculators and the Western world will inevitably rise with box residents) there are promises but City yuppies don’t know what to do all its social and other consequences. no solutions. Plenty of promises: the with their bonuses, and privatised Even the bosses are getting worried. hangers-on will, between now and the public services et alia pension off half Howard Davies, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), in a lecture last month to the Manchester Business School: THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC ASSAULT “... called on the government and employers to face up to the consequences of deep-seated economic changes that had CHIPS-ON-THE-BRAIN GALORE! transformed Britain into a more unequal n the last issue of Freedom we gave well as used in a gun to bum out the and poverty stricken society" (The Iour front page to The Laser Gun’ eyes of ‘enemy’ troops (or why not Guarduxn, 11th March). and called for scientists and demonstrators?), the Professor’s technologists engaged in such brainstorm could, in his words, “be a As well as distancing himself from the anti-social activity to be publicly possible partial treatment for “laissez faire approach followed in the exposed. Now as well as having Alzheimer’s disease, the degenerative 1980s” he pointed out that: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days we have brain disorder in the old. Or it may be also had a Science Week. As if we a way in the future for man to extend “the widening gulf between rich and poor haven’t suffered enough from the his intelligence”. The latter gives even had not been matched by a universal scientists’ brainstorms! the Professor food for thought when increase in living standards. Over the past The latest is the medical implant of he acknowledged such work would ten years ‘the poorest 10% and some a computer chip in the brain. Colin raise important ethical problems others have become absolutely poorer’. “such as the prospect of people being The 1.3 million Increase in jobs during the Humphreys is his name and he is 1980s was entirely accounted for by Professor of Materials Science able to control the minds of others”. part-timers, mostly women. (whatever that may be) at Cambridge Presumably he means the wrong Mr Davies canvassed the Idea of a University. He is described in The people. After all, we already have negative income tax, which would top up Independent as a ‘leading scientist’ more than enough people and the pay of those on low wages and thereby and quoted as saying that it was institutions bombarding us daily with drag them out of the poverty trap." realistic to envisage a day when what we should do and think without surgeons would be able to attach tiny introducing chips-on-the-brain. his perhaps shocked audience memory circuits etched onto _ he put the rhetorical question: “Or microscopic silicon chips to the living efore the scientists are let loose is that too much like socialism?” And circuits of the brain. Addressing a Bwith their implants what about a then to reassure them he defended moratorium. All the experts, management on their pay increases medical conference at Hammersmith saying there was “little evidence that Hospital he maintained that: scientists, economists, politicians, church and other do-gooders and the overall there was one law for the rich “If we can understand the interface - the mass media just shut up for one year and one for the poor . Which in this boundary between silicon chips and brain and allow us to rehabilitate e writer’s opinion is a non sequttur. On cells - then there is a prospect of that subject, though, the law may human brain to help us to dea implanting silicon chips into the human apply equally to rich and poor, as brain." our daily lives and to enjoy about time we were left in peace y Freedom’s ‘legal adviser’ pointed out Like the laser research which can be p r o g r e s s (continued on page 2) used to cure people with, cataracts as ! EDITORIAL COMMENTS ** 2 figures, by 2003 “three out of every ten THE CAPITALIST DISEASE THAT WON’T GO AWAY men and 45% of all employees would be part-time”. MASS UNEMPLOYMENT TO STAY e believe that today the basic Wnecessities of life can be produced for poor grateful for the extra crumbs from Attracted by the vast market and seemingly (continued from page 1) endless pool of cheap labour, foreign investors all the inhabitants of this planet, without when four editors were arrested during the rich man’s table. But surely somebody have poured In, bringing skills and know-how. damaging the environment and allowing World War Two: “You will get as much law has to provide the ‘negative income tax’? In the past ten years, ninety million Chinese more and more leisure for eveiybody. as you can afford". If anything, things Within the capitalist system it can only be have left to work in the new coastal factories. It Under capitalism, as always, the idle have got worse. What the CBI chief didn t the rich. They can’t squeeze the poor any is the biggest migration of all time - and it’s rich get richer, millions starve at the same mention was how the rich and influential more without them starving or blowing accelerating. time as millions of productive acres are can try to bypass the law. It’s not just in everything up! With all this flood of low-wage workers set aside - by order - and farmers’ bank those Mediterranean countries where to Will Hutton, Economic Editor of The released on to the labour markets, it’s little accounts reap this dishonest harvest. have the ‘right connections* is sometimes Guardian who is more than ever wonder that at the recent ‘Jobs Summit’ in Under capitalism production has no more valuable than having the right Detroit, the leaders of the developed world had uncomfortable with the capitalist system, few answers about how to maintain the Jobs relation to need: only to profit. Hence a lawyers. As we write, it would appear that writes: multi-billion pound advertising industiy the Tories’ chairman Norman Fowler put and far higher wages of their unskilled Mr Davies knows the answers. The rise in workers.” to create a demand for goods and services in a good word for a firm of architects who poverty to which the government has* been we can easily do without while the army were about to be made bankrupt by indifferent is absolutely offensive. The poor of homeless increases and we are short of Customs and Excise for non-payment of need to be empowered to get back to work - and nd one last statistic and forecast from hospital beds for the sick... and so on and i f £40,000 in VAT. As he pointed out, as an as he said the responsibility falls to the state. Aa report published by the Low Pay so on. MP he does this kind of thing for many of And, given the powerful forces promoting Network last week. All the rosy official The shorter working week we advocate his constituents, and this is very noble of income inequality, the correct response is now employment figures showing more people r has little in common with the part-time him. The actual facts are that the to raise ttetop rates of tax to fund the relief of in work give only half of the picture. racket which the government, and architect in question is not one of his poverty - the redistribution of Income against Employment figures show a fall of needless to say the employers, are constituents! He is however living with Mr which Mr Davies’ predecessors so frequently 113.000 in full-time jobs between March raged. The director-general of the CBI cannot enthusiastic about since it lets them out Fowler’s long-standing Commons and September last year, but a rise of of paying National Insurance, paid Secretary! Since publicity has been given be expected to call for this outright - but his questioning last night was the next best thing.
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